Domino.



" UNITED ASTATES Patented December 27, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

DOMINO.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 778,25,'dated December27, 1904. l Application filed August 6, 1903. Serial No. 168,478.

y To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH CHARLES HOW- ELLs, Sr., a citizen of theUnited States, residing inthe city of Summit,` county of Union, andState of New Jersey, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in theConstruction of Dominoes, as set forth in'this specification.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willdescribe its construction and operation, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings and to the iigures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 is a face view of my improved domino in perspective. of thedomino. Fig. 3 represents my improved dominoes at the time of mixing orshuffling the same.

i The nature of my invention consists in so constructing the dominoesthat they can be more quickly and perfectly mixed or shuflied when thegame is being played. To secure this end, I construct the domino withbeveled surfaces, as seen in Figs. l and 2Y at 5 5 and at 6 6. Thusconstructed and with their faces turned down they will, under a gentlepressure of the fingers, (made as if gathering them together,) glide theone over the other, as seen in Fig. 3, and in such a manner as to securea more equal mixing and distribution of their numbers than can beobtained with dominoes as at present constructed.

Anotheradvantage resulting from my im- Fig. 2 is a back view proveddomino is that its peculiar conformation prevents its warping when madeof wood or similar material. y

I am aware that dominoes have been constructed with beveled surfacesprior to my invention; but the bevels have been confined to the sides ofthe domino and do not change its thickness or interfere with theparallelism of the face n'and back of the domino, being simply used as ameans of keeping the line of playing-dominoes within handling distance,so that the two ends of the line are always in sight and within easyreach of both of the players, as seen in Bloomingdales patent, No.GALSQS, dated` January 23, 1900; but I am not aware that the faces orbacks of dominoes beveled wholly or in part have ever been known or usedprior to my invention thereof.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent as a new article ofmanufacture, is- A domino, whose back is fiat, but whose face isprovided with longitudinally-beveled surfaces from its center out;making it substantially a plano-convexed body as shown and set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name l y to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' JOSEPH CHARLES HOWELIIS, SR. Witnesses:

' EVERETI T. SPINNING,

SARA M.k FLEMING.

